History Main / PlayingGertrude

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* DawsonCasting: High school students in live-action films are often played by actors who are old enough to have finished high school.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: A woman who appears to be too young to be the mother of a particular child(ren) (this may be due WritersCannotDoMath, or the character really ''could'' have been very young when she had children).

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->''"Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s mother will not be played by a woman who could have gone to high school with the actor playing Hamlet."''
-->-- Rule #142, ''[[http://angevin2.livejournal.com/148520.html The Things I Will Not Do When I Direct A Shakespeare Production]]''

Due to {{Double Standard}}s concerning age and perceived attractiveness, adult male characters are usually played by actors of about the character's age, but female characters of middle age and older are often played by actresses noticeably younger than the character should be. This becomes jarring when a character's mother, or a woman otherwise stated to be of an older generation, is played by someone only slightly older (such as in ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', pictured to the right)--or, in some cases, ''younger''--than him.

Named for Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's mother Gertrude, who has traditionally been played by improbably young actresses (it's less common in more recent productions). This is most prominently and [[WTHCastingAgency ridiculously]] pronounced in Creator/LaurenceOlivier's film version of ''Film/{{Hamlet|1948}}'', which featured Eileen Herlie in the role of Gertrude despite the fact that she was 11 years ''younger'' than Olivier himself.

A related effect tends to crop up in animated portrayals of middle-aged women. If a female character has an obviously attractive mother, [[MumLooksLikeASister expect both of them to look about the same age]]. That being said, male examples, though uncommon, do exist.

Sometimes this trope can be forced by a movie that covers a long period of time. If we see the mother of a small child, and then see the child grow to adulthood, it's usually easier to cast a young woman as the mother and "age" her with makeup, [[NotAllowedToGrowOld if at all]], instead of the other way around. Some actors can be YoungerThanTheyLook and get cast as roles that are older than they are--Creator/JonHamm, for instance, talks about being 25 and auditioning to play fathers on {{Teen Drama}}s.

Appears quite often in voice acting too, since looks, of course, don't matter. Due to VocalDissonance, some voice actors can sound much older than they are (or younger). As rather a lot of animated children are voiced by adults with high-pitched voices, it's not uncommon for the actors to be the same age or even younger than those voicing their children.

Closely related to HollywoodHomely and a side effect of UnderageCasting. This is one way to [[InvertedTrope invert]] DawsonCasting and is frequently a side effect of it (having a 40-year-old actress playing the mother of a teenager is perfectly plausible, but when the actor playing the teenager is 25, it becomes a problem.) Often overlaps with HollywoodOld, since it's usually impossible for a Hollywood Old character to have a [[DawsonCasting teenage]] or adult child without their (lack of) age difference becoming a Playing Gertrude. However, when both actors are middle-aged or older, it's easy to have a Playing Gertrude without either character being HollywoodOld. Contrast AgeLift, where the role is changed to make the actor age-appropriate for the role. See also AbsurdlyYouthfulMother, where a parent is or appears unusually young ''in-story'', as well as MumLooksLikeASister, where parent and child (typically mother and daughter) look like siblings instead.

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!!Example subpages:

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* [[PlayingGertrude/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
* [[PlayingGertrude/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]]
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!!Other examples:

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[[folder:Anime]]
* Creator/YokoHikasa has voices older characters:
** In ''Manga/AhoGirl'', Hikasa played Yoshiko's mother Yoshie. Hikasa is only seven years older than Yoshiko's voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki, while A-Kun's voice actor Creator/TomokazuSugita and Ms. Oshieda's voice actress Creator/RinaSato are older than Hikasa.
** In ''Manga/{{Magi}}'', Hikasa played Sinbad's mother Esra. Hikasa is seven years younger than Sinbad's voice actor Creator/DaisukeOno.
** In ''Manga/ACoupleOfCuckoos'', Hisaka played Nagi's adopted mother and Erika's biological mother Namie. Hikasa is eight years older than Nagi's voice actor Creator/KaitoIshikawa and nine years older than Erika's voice actor Creator/AkariKitou.
* In ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'', Creator/SaoriHayami voices the 43-year-old Tsuki Uzaki. For perspective, Hayami was 29 at the time of the first season's recording, and she's also two years younger than Creator/NaomiOzora, who voices Tsuki's daughter Hana, the female lead.

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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6269272/1/Tekken_Movie_2010_Asukas_Revenge Tekken Movie 2010: Asuka's Revenge]]'' is, as the name suggests, a rewrite of the 2010 live-action ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' movie with Asuka as the main character. The author even provides a "cast list" with characters that were in the actual movie being played by the same actors and the author providing casting for anyone who wasn't. His choice of actress to play Michelle Chang is actually three years ''younger'' than the one playing her adopted daughter Julia (canonically nearly 20 years Michelle's junior). Overlaps with DawsonCasting as both actresses are closer to Michelle's age than to Julia's.
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': Creator/MayaRudolph is seven years younger than Creator/AlanCumming who plays her character's son.
* The film ''WesternAnimation/LegoDCComicsSuperHeroes'' Justice League: Gotham City Breakout" has Commissioner Gordon voiced by Creator/EricBauza, who was born in 1979. Outside of Greg Cipes (1980) as Beast Boy and Sarah Hyland (1991) as Batgirl, he's younger than the rest of the cast despite his character being older.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnlimitedMonsterMayhem'' sees Creator/KharyPayton reprise his ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' role as Cyborg, while his father Silas Stone is voiced by Cedric Yarborough, who's 1 year ''younger''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' has Manolo's grandmother voiced by Creator/GreyDelisle, who was 41 years old when the movie was released. Her character's son, Carlos Sanchez, is voiced by Hector Elizondo, who was almost 78 when the movie came out.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' has Uzo Aduba (who was born in 1981) as Queen Novo and Creator/KristinChenoweth (who was born in 1968) as her daughter Princess Skystar.
* The second ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' movie, ''Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey'', has Mr. Bloomsbury voiced by Creator/FredTatasciore while Creator/JeffBennett voices Ted, one of his employees. Even though Tatasciore's character is older than Bennett's character, the former is five years younger than the latter.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'' sees Creator/RobinAtkinDownes (born in 1976) voice Alfred, a character nearly twice his age. Additionally, he's younger than Creator/KevinConroy (born in 1955), who reprises his role as Batman (though Batman himself is around his 30s as always).
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanReturnOfTheCapedCrusaders'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanVsTwoFace'', both of which are animated adaptations of the 1966 Batman television series produced 50 years later, sees Jim Ward (1959) as James Gordon, Lynn Marie Stewart (1946) as Aunt Harriet, Steven Weber (1969) as Alfred, and Thomas Lennon (1970) as Chief O'Hara, with all of them being considerably younger than Adam West (1928) as Batman and Burt Ward (1945) as Robin even though their characters are older.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', Gramma Tala is voiced by Creator/RachelHouse, who was only 45 at the time of the movie's release. Creator/TemueraMorrison, who plays her son, is nearly eleven years older than she is.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', Elsa and Anna's mother Queen Iduna's single line was voiced by co-director Jennifer Lee, who is 5 months younger than Creator/IdinaMenzel and 11 years older than Creator/KristenBell. The gap becomes much larger in the 2019 sequel ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' where Iduna is voiced by Creator/EvanRachelWood, who is 32, seven years younger than Kristen Bell and 16 years younger than Idina Menzel.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'': Creator/JennySlate, who voices Ted Wiggins' mother, is actually only ''five'' years older than Creator/ZacEfron.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'': Wanda Sykes voices Sid's senile granny. In reality, Creator/JohnLeguizamo and Sykes were born in ''the exact same year'' of 1964, just about three months apart.
* While unlike in ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', the Saran Essen of the comics is younger than Jim Gordon, she's still older than Bruce. In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanYearOne'', Creator/KateeSackhoff voices Essen -- and is two years younger than Creator/BenjaminMcKenzie, who voices Batman.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'' sees Creator/TaraStrong and Creator/GreyDeLisle, both born in 1973, respectively voice Marlene Mahoney and Leslie Thompkins, who are in their 60s. For further reference, they're both younger than Creator/BruceGreenwood, who in a bit of DawsonCasting, is once again Batman (though in this case Bruce is around his 20s rather than 30s and 40s like in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'').
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'' sees Creator/GreyDeLisle voice the middle-aged Nora Allen and Creator/KevinMcKidd voice the Batman of the Flashpoint Universe, [[spoiler:Thomas Wayne, who's a senior citizen]], and both actors were born in 1973. [=DeLisle=] is three years younger than Creator/JustinChambers (born in 1970), who voices Barry, and [[spoiler:[=McKidd=] is almost two decades younger than Creator/KevinConroy (born 1955), who reprises the role of the classic 30+ year old Bruce Wayne Batman]]. Likewise, Creator/DannyHuston, born in 1962, voiced the also senior citizen Sam Lane, while not stated on-screen, the father of Lois Lane, who was reprised by Creator/DanaDelany, who was born in 1956.
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[[folder:Music]]
* In Mark Schultz's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuvbBwsMTgI Letters from War]], the woman playing the soldier's mother looks like she's only as old as he is.
* In the Strauss opera ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'', which sets the Biblical story to music, there is often an interesting aversion in which the soloist playing Salome is often far ''older'' than the soloist playing Herodias, her mother. This is probably because Salome is a central role and Herodias is at most a bit-part: older opera singers tend to have the prestige and clout that gets them the starring roles, and newbies are relegated to bit-parts. Therefore, as noted in the Creator/{{BBC}} production of ''Salome'', we get the incongruity of a [[FanDisservice fifty-year-old daughter dancing a salacious striptease]] in front of her enthralled stepfather and twenty-something mother...
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/PaulBearer was revealed to be the biological father of Wrestling/TheUndertaker's (half-) brother Wrestling/{{Kane}}. The only problem is that Bill Moody (1954-2013) was only thirteen years older than Glenn Jacobs (born 1967).
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Series/DeadRingers:'' Spoofed when Sue Johnston breaks character in an episode of ''Time'' to tell Sean Bean's character she's got no idea why she's playing his mother when she's only eleven years older than him.
-->'''Johnston:''' We was married in a ''Morse'', for Pete's sake!
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'':
** The actors playing Elisabeth and Franz Joseph are often close in age to the actor playing Rudolf. Whether this is blatant or not depends on whether Elisabeth and Franz Joseph are made to look older over the course of the musical.
** Some of the actresses playing Sophie are obviously too young to be the mother of the actor playing Franz Joseph.
* Ubiquitous in Creator/TakarazukaRevue productions, including ''Theatre/{{Phantom}}'' and the aforementioned ''Elisabeth''. The main character in a show is usually played by the Top Star while the main character's parents are played by lower-ranked actresses. And since the lower-ranked actresses are almost always younger than the Top Star...
* Probable in any ballet, especially with those with mothers and parents in small non-dancing roles, such as ''The Sleeping Beauty'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Giselle'', or ''Swan Lake'', given a) a ballet dancer's short performing lifespan of 18ish-35ish mean that even the most mature ballet dancers aren't way older than the younger ones and b) most mature ballet dancers are principals and will only dance in principal roles. It wouldn't be out of place to have a thirty-two-year-old principal play sixteen-year-old Aurora, and a twenty-year-old soloist play her mother.
* Justified in any production of Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Theatre/{{Iolanthe}}''. The mother and aunts of the male lead are supposed to all look noticeably younger than him, and one of the jokes is the need for him to explain to people (such as his intended bride) why teenage girls are seen hugging and kissing him. (There ''is'' [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld a good reason for the apparent age difference]].)
* Inverted in-story in ''Theatre/TheGrandDuke'' when mention is made of an actor who refuses to play [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romeo]] unless his ''grandmother'' plays Juliet.
* ''Theatre/KingLear'' is as often as not played by a younger man due to the intense physical nature of the role in most productions. Whether this trope comes into play or not differs depending on the quality of the given Lear's age makeup (most major productions are pretty well done, and the role is pretty much always played by ''mature'' actors -- it's just that the text establishes that Lear is over eighty years old).
* In the musical of ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' all of the adult female roles (including several teenage characters' mothers) are played by one woman. In the original production, the understudy for this role was 30-year-old Frances Mercanti-Anthony. This makes her a bit young for her motherly roles to begin with but combined with DawsonCasting of a few of her "children" (such as 20-year-old Creator/LeaMichele as the daughter of one of her characters) the age gap was even smaller.
* ''[[Theatre/Matilda]]'': Actor Gabriel Ebert was only in his mid-twenties when he originated the role of middle-aged Mr. Wormwood on Broadway. He is only a year older than Taylor Trensch, who played his son Michael.
* Pretty much inevitable in high school and college theater, since all the actors will be about the same age.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the early installments of the ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'' series, Rand Miller streaked his hair and beard grey and affected a gravelly, world-weary tone of voice to play the much older Atrus; it also helped to differentiate Atrus from [[IdenticalGrandson his son Achenar]], whose hair was darker and who spoke in a higher register. By the time of ''Exile'' and ''Revelation'', Rand was old enough to play Atrus with his natural voice and without fake grey in his hair; casting a different actor as Achenar in ''Revelation'' also helped. The fact that Atrus has more long-lived D'ni blood than his sons might help account for Rand looking awfully young to be Achenar's father in-Verse.
* Lia Montelogo was only 19 when she did the photoshoot for Sindel in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3''. She was actually a few years younger than Becky Gable, who plays Sindel's daughter Kitana in the upgraded version of the game, ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3''. This is due to the fact that the two characters are part of a fictional humanoid race known as Edenians, who age much slower than Earthrealmers.
* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Started from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' mostly the voice actors are younger than their characters
** Creator/HirokiTakahashi (born 1974) and Ryu (born 1964)
** Creator/YujiKishi (born 1970) and Ken (born 1965)
** Creator/FumikoOrikasa (born 1974) and Chun-Li (born 1968)
** Creator/HirokiYasumoto (born 1977) and Guile (born 1960)
** Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (born 1985) and Cammy (born 1974)
** Creator/KentaMiyake (born 1977) and Zangief (born 1956)
** Daisuke Egawa (born 1974) and Dhalsim (born 1952)
** Creator/JunichiSuwabe (born 1972) and Vega (born 1967)
** Creator/SatoshiTsuruoka (born 1974) and Balrog (born 1968)
** Creator/YuuichiNakamura (born 1980) and Fei-Long (born 1969)
** Creator/KenjiHamada (born 1972) and Dee Jay (born 1965)

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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The cast of ''Series/{{Noob}}'' rconsists of people of similar age, and the "X is Y's parent" twist has happened a couple of times. In both cases, the parent does not look old enough to have an adult child (the youngest characters were in their late teens in Season 1). The cartoony art style of the ComicBookAdaptation doesn't help much in this regard either. In addition to this, the actor playing Abraham, introduced as Sparadrap's father from the start, is actually a few years younger than the actor playing Sparadrap.
* WebVideo/RedLetterMedia videos frequently features the character of Mr Plinkett, an elderly man who is performed by Rich Evans in WebVideo/HalfInTheBag and Mike Stoklasa in the WebVideo/MisterPlinkettReviews, both men in their 30s and 40s.
* WebVideo/MonteFjanton's series ''Mystikhörnan'' features the characters Morgan Månstråle and Kenneth Hyvel, a pair of middle-aged conspiracy theorists who went to "the university-college of Degeberga" together sometime in the 80's before meeting up again and making the web series itself in the new '10s. Kenneth's actor was only 18 and Morgan's ''16'' when they started playing these roles, meaning they look and sound noticably younger than they should even in the flashback to their college days.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Creator/KevinConroy wasn't even in his 50s yet when he voiced old Bruce Wayne in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' (who was about eighty years old during the series proper, and nearing the century mark in the FullyAbsorbedFinale [[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''). Similarly, Creator/AngieHarmon wasn't even 30 yet when she took over from Stockard Channing in the role of the older Barbara Gordon (who's in her 60s) in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' and Season 3 of the series proper.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' creator Creator/AlexHirsch voices Great Uncle "Grunkle" Stan Pines, Old Man [=McGucket=], and Gravity Falls' 100+-year-old mayor. Hirsch himself was in his late 20s during the production of the series.
* Same for his friend Creator/JustinRoiland, who voiced both title characters on ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the former being around eighty despite being only being his mid-30s making him only slightly younger than Creator/SarahChalke, who plays his daughter, and barely older than Spencer Grammar, who voices his granddaughter.
* Creator/AprilWinchell was in her late 30s/early 40s when she voiced sexagenarian Miss Finster on ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''.
* Sherri Stoner was only in her 30s when she voiced Slappy Squirrel on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', who is stated on the show to be an octogenarian.
* ''WesternAnimation/MarvelsSpiderMan'' sees Creator/BenDiskin, a man in his mid-30s, voice the middle-aged Spencer Smythe. Furthermore, Ben Diskin is 9 years ''younger'' than Creator/JasonSpisak, who voices Spencer's more famous son, Alistair.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' sees Creator/DavidTennant as Scrooge [=McDuck=]. Scrooge is an old man and Tennant is in his 40s. Additionally, Toks Olagundoye, who's in her 40s, voices the also older Ms. Beakley and Beck Bennett, who voices Launchpad, is ''younger'' than the voice actors for Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby despite the character being older (and Bennett being 3 when [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 the original series first aired]]).
* On ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'', King Verrago is the father of Skylar, even though the former is voiced by Andre Soliguizzo (who was born in 1966) and the latter is voiced by Creator/CarlosAlazraqui (who was born in 1962).
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''
** Creator/GaryCole (Mayor Jones) is ten years younger than Creator/FrankWelker (Fred). Creator/TimMatheson (Brad) is a year younger than Frank Welker as well.
** Creator/MatthewLillard (Shaggy) is three years older than Creator/GreyDeLisle (Mrs. Rogers).
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'', Shaggy's grandmother is voiced by the same voice actress as Daphne (Creator/GreyDelisle) even though Creator/MatthewLillard (Shaggy's voice actor) is 3 years older than Grey.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' has Nanny, voiced by Creator/JennySlate, who's younger than all the voice actors for the title characters, save for is Creator/BenDiskin (voice of Gonzo), who is only months younger than her. Likewise, Statler and Waldorf, who are old men, are voiced by Creator/EricBauza and Matt Danner, who are in their late 30s.
* ''WebAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' has Granny Goodness voiced by 48-year-old April Stewart.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' has Ashi voiced by Creator/TaraStrong while her mother is voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle, who's 6 months younger than her.
* Artemis Pebdani, who voices Alice Green on ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', was born in 1977, making her younger than Bob Joles (voice of Bill, born 1959) and Wendi [=McLendon=] Covey (voice of Nancy, born in 1969).
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', the title character was voiced by Creator/JanetWaldo, while her ward Sylvester Sneekly (alias The Hooded Claw) was voiced by Creator/PaulLynde. Waldo was actually six years ''older'' than Lynde.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** The main group of kids have ages 15 or under, according to the creators (with Candace being 15). ''None'' of their voice actors have ages falling into that range, with one of them, Maulik Pancholy, voice of Baljeet, being in his late 30s (Pancholy was born in 1974). Incredibly, he's not even the oldest--the winner of that particular honor is Kelly Hu, who was 39 when she began voicing Stacy (Hu was born in 1968)!
** Jeremy and Vanessa were roughly the same age as their voice actors, Mitchel Musso and Olivia Olsen, respectively, during the casting. Even so, however, both Musso (b. 1991) and Olsen (b. 1992) are actually ''younger'' than Thomas Sangster (b. 1990), the voice of Ferb, a preteen.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has the eldest of the Belcher children, Tina, voiced by [[CrossDressingVoice Dan Mintz]], who is actually the youngest of the main cast (Mintz was born in 1981). Eugene Mirman (middle child [[TheDanza Gene]]) and Creator/KristenSchaal (youngest child Louise) are both older than Mintz (they were born in 1974 and 1978, respectively).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** Born in 1971, Brian Stepanek, Lynn Sr.'s voice actor, is actually younger than some of Lynn Sr.'s daughters' voice actresses, such as Creator/LaraJillMiller (Lisa), Creator/NikaFutterman (Luna) and Creator/CristinaPucelli (Luan), who were born in 1967, 1969 and 1970, respectively.
** Similarly, in the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'', Angelica Aragon (born 1953), who voices Mama Lupe, is younger than Sonia Manzano (born 1950), who voices Lupe's daughter Abuela Rosa.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' has The Conductor voiced by Creator/IanJamesCorlett (born in 1962) while his mother is voiced by Creator/TabithaStGermain (born in 1964).
* On ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', Creator/ArtemisPebdani (born 1977) voices [[CoolOldLady Alice Green]], who's in her seventies.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'', Creator/MichaelAdamthwaite (born 1981) plays an older brother to Creator/ChiaraZanni (born 1978). Interestingly, both the characters and the actors have a similar age gap (Zeke and Rachel are two years apart, Adamthwaite and Zanni are three years apart).4
* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' is voiced by Creator/WeirdAlYankovic, who was born in 1959. The actors voicing his parents, Creator/DiedrichBader and Creator/PamelaAdlon, were both born in 1966.
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[[folder:Other]]
* This trope is almost always in effect whenever a production uses wild animals or animals that grow to large sizes. For example, chimpanzees used in films and television are almost always babies or adolescents being presented as fully grown because actual adult chimpanzees are incredibly dangerous to be around. Another example would be pigs as, despite being domesticated, they grow to be six to seven feet long and can weigh up to half a ton so adolescent pigs who are about the size of dogs are more practical and easier to handle on set.
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** In Manga/AhoGirl, Hikasa played Yoshiko's mother Yoshie. Hikasa is only seven years older than Yoshiko's voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki, while A-Kun's voice actor Creator/TomokazuSugita and Ms. Oshieda's voice actress Creator/RinaSato are older than Hikasa.

** In Manga/AhoGirl, Julissa played Yoshiko's mother Yoshie. Hikasa is only seven years older than Yoshiko's voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki, while A-Kun's voice actor Creator/TomokazuSugita and Ms. Oshieda's voice actress Creator/RinaSato are older than Hikasa.

* In ''Manga/AhoGirl'', Creator/YokoHikasa voices Yoshiko's mother Yoshie. Hikasa is only seven years older than Yoshiko's voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki, while A-Kun's voice actor Creator/TomokazuSugita and Ms. Oshieda's voice actress Creator/RinaSato are older than Hikasa.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'', Creator/MichaelAdamthwaite (born 1981) plays an older brother to Creator/ChiaraZanni (born 1978). Interestingly, both the characters and the actors have a similar age gap (Zeke and Rachel are two years apart, Adamthwaite and Zanni are three years apart).

* In ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'', Creator/SaoriHayami voices the 43-year-old Tsuki Uzaki. For perspective, Hayami was 29 at the time of the first season's recording, and she's also two years younger than Creator/NaomiOzora, who voices Tsuki's daughter Hana as the main lead.

* In ''Manga/AhoGirl'', Creator/YokoHikasa voices Yoshiko's mother Yoshie. Hikasa is only seven years older than Yoshiko voice actress Creator/AoiYuuki. While A-Kun voice by Creator/TomokazuSugita and Ms.Oshieda voice by Creator/RinaSato are older than Hikasa.

* ''Theatre/Matilda'': Gabriel Ebert was only in his mid-twenties when he originated the role of middle-aged Mr. Wormwood on Broadway. He is only a year older than Taylor Trensch, who played his son Michael.